北京市西城区2015-2016学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题

1、世纪金榜圆您梦想更多精品资源请登录第 页（共 17 页）A 卷满分 9O分第一部分I. 听力理解（共三节，满分22.5 分）第一节：（共4 小题；每小题1.5 分，满分6 分）听下面四段对话，每段对话后有道小题，从题中所给的A、 B、 C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话你将听听两遍。How does ihe woman leam Chinese?C. On the Internet.A. On the radio. B. On television.What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?A. Neighbors.B

2、. Husband and wife.C. Teacher and parent.Which bus will the woman take al last?A. T-3. B. Z-4. C. T-6.What is the man doing?A.Giving advice. B.Offering help.C.Makingan appointment.第二节：（共6 小题；每小题1.5 分，满分9 分）听下面段对话，每段对话后有两道小题，从题中所给的A、 B、 C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话你将听两遍。听第 5 段材料，回答第5 至第 6 小题。Where does the woma

3、n prefer to buy things?A. At the mall.B. On a webfsit. C. At thediscount store.When did the man get the bank card?A. This morning. B.Last week. C. Last month.听第 6 段材料，回答第7 至第 8 小题。What is the mans holiday plan?Coing to Jinan with his aunt.Taking a hiking trip to Himalays.Visiting Underwater World id

4、 Qingdao.How long is the womans trip?A. 6 days. B. Kathy. C. Jim.Who called Tony?A . Have dinner. B. Play football. C. Go and the hook.Whal will Tony do now?A. Have dinner. B. Paly football . C. Go and get the book. TOC o 1-5 h z （ 听力理解第三节见试卷第7 页） . 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1.5 分，满分22.5）阅读下而短文，举握其大意，从各题所给的A、B,

5、 C 、 D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。“ Ann Mathews, urgent call on line One ，” a nnounccd the voice on my telephone speaker.As a social worker, I knew a 11 response might mean life or death for in abused （受虐待的）child. Jean Smith, my boes， had even come up wilk a slogan, “ Call early save a child! ”So I 12 over

6、 a metal wastebasket and quickly picked up the phone.“ .no,thanks, I dont need a sandwith today. ” I said to the sandwich delivery boy on theother end.I appreiated my secretary Saras hard work, 13 her non-emergency“ urgent ” calls weredriving me crazy!I walked past the swichboar d where Sara sat. “I

7、 m out. Hold my cal ls. ”“ Bu t what if its an urgent 14 ? Sara asked in a serious voice.“ Take a message, ” I said, “ Ill 15 it as soon as I getback, ” I the m headed out thedoor.When I finally got back to the office， I had a headache. There on my desk was a brightorange stic ky nole, “ Urgent mess

8、age! Please take action 16, ” it said.“ Thai Sara! I wonder what it i s this time. Probably a message from the dry-cleaners. ”I threw it into my 17 and finished up some work that was urgent.I came to work the next morning. Imade several calls to set up meetings for theaftermoon. In the office next d

9、oor, I heard Jean slam her telephone down and hurry out.“ The principal of Lee Middle School just called Jean, ” one of the coworkers said. “ Hesays they reported a child with unexplained injury yesterday. And ihey still havent gotten a（n） 18for us.“ That s awful ! Who look the message?” asked the o

10、ther.“S ara did ， but she doesnt 19 who she gave the message to . And whats worse，the child didnt show up forschool today! ”I 20 . Could they be talking about my “u rgent message ” ? I did in my wastebasket untilI found the orange note:“ School Nurse at Lee Middle.Reporting possible child abuse.plea

11、se call before school closes.”Through the half-open door,I could hear Jean talking to Sare. “ The child is fine this time,but that does not 21 your mistake.” I shut my eyes tightly to think.“S ara doesnt remember putting this message in my box.I could 22I never got it! ” I told myself.Then I 23 my e

12、yes.I knew what I must do. Tightly holdingthe orange sticky note,I knocked on the door.saras face relaxed as I began to explain.Weeks later ， I opened a file and fount a note in Jeans handwriting：“ Ann Matthews is hard workitig. In the area of social work , mjistakes are sometimes made. Anns greates

13、tstrength is her willingness to take24 .Now, I keep an arange sticky note on my desk to 25 me.11.A.quickB.naturalC. clearD. silent12.A.walkedB.jumpedC.climbedD. stepped13.A.forB.andC. soD.but14.A.deliveryB. messageC. callD.letter15.A.handleB.copyC. sendD.study16.A.recentlyB. immediatelyC. suddenlyD.

14、 Gnallv17.A.fileB.bagC. wastebasket D.box18.A.responseB. agreementC. promiseD. offer19.A.knowB.remember C. recognizeD. care20. A.frozeB.smiledC. liedD. cried21. A.makeB.excuseC.causeD.correct22. A.supposeB.admitC.explainD. preiend23 A.closedB.raisedC.evenedD. dropped24. A.controlB.adviceC. responsib

15、ilityD. action25. A.exciteB.encourageC. persuadeD.remind . 阅读理解（共11 小题；每小题2 分，满分22 分）阅渎下面短文，从各题所给的A、 B 、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。ADear ChrisWe would like to advise that the principal of carlingford High School has consideredyour application for admission in Year 10, according, to the- outcome of an interview

16、.Carlingford High School is located on North Rocks Rd, CarLingfard NSW 2118.That pricipal, Mr. DavidKrust has requested that you attend an interviewat theschool at 9:00 a.m on Saturday 16 th July 2016. The phone number of Carlingford HighSchool is 98714222, You should take your paasport and E-visa i

17、nfor mation to school.Your care taker must also atten this interview.Your care taker must bring photoidentificatio documents and proof of residential address to the school.If your care taker isyour father or mother,he/she must bring E-visa information to the school.If you are over 18 years,your emer

18、gency contact person must also attend this interview.Your emergency contact person must bring photo identification documents and proof of residential address to the school .Fina enrolment into a nsw government high school will be depended on the outcome of this interview.If you, or your care taker c

19、annot keep this appointment,you should call the school toarrange a new lime.For more informaTion about your Enrolment , you can cantact me 82936918 or email DanielKim76 .au.Yours sincerely,Daniel KimDEC internationalNSW Department uf Education4 July 2016Locked Bag 53 , Darlinghurst NSW 1300Telephone

20、 +612 82894777 Facsimile +612 82894788www. intermationalschool. edu. auIf Chris wants to contact Daniel Kim, he is advised to call.A.98714222 B. 82894777 C. 828947S8 D. 82936918Besides the passport, what other documents should Chris take when goingto school on July 16?A.E-visa information. B.Proof o

21、f residential address.C. The application letter. D. Photo identificaiion documents.If Chriss care taker cannot keep this appointment,what should he do?A.Go by himself.Call the school to person orange a new time.C.Cancel it by email.D.Go with his emergency contact person.What is the purpose of this l

22、etter?To weLcome Chris to study in the school.To give some informatioin about the school.To inform Chris of an interview at the school.To show the different ways lu contact the school.BWe were extremely poor. We had nohouse, no food. Weh ad nothing. My parents had manyproblems. My family was always

23、on the edge of violence, It was tunbelievably sressful.There wasnt a moment to relax during my entire childhood.I waited to be an artist when I was about six. But my family was so poor that I gotknocked off trak by the working-class educational system and the environment I was living in.I become a s

24、treet gang member, causing trouble and fighting against other groups.Being a teenager with vivid imagination,a strong sence of adventure and some degreeofcourage ,it was attractive to steal cars,drive them away,and get chased by the police.If I had nothing to do, I would go to evening school to lear

25、n painting； I tried to enterone of those art schools. but I was rejected by 11 schools when they heard I bad been a street gang member. When I was not accepted,cpled , I cried a lot.When I was finallly accepted by Croydon College of Art, I felt was in heaven. life hadbeen saved.I worked with great s

26、treet that other students found scary.and it scared me too.Unlike other students I could also feel a kind of happiness to do my best to realize my dream.I went through a long period in ray life where my art was not accepted. The only time Ialmost considered giving up was one morning, about 3 a. m. I

27、 had an exhibition in New York.Icould sell none of my works.I could not afford to live.I was so defeated .I thought maybeIshould go somewhere in the middle of America and find a new job, have a car and ahouse with a garge. That lasted about an hour, but it was such astressfulexperience.Now Im famous

28、, and got a lot of my works sold at a pretty high price, I think before one is famous, one has to infamous, and before one is accefled. one has to berejected.Painting doesnt explain itself.Painting is not an explanation. Painting doesnttry ti teach. Painting is a body of esperiences, Painting is cal

29、led a hard business.One hasto have firm beliefs. And I do. One has to have courage to be an artist beacause one has gotto put up with all the insullts one has to suffer as an artist. So one has topertist, inother words , to have little hope.The childhood of Ihe author was .A. happy B.Br relaxing C.

30、bearing D. painfulAccording to thepassage, why was the author rejected by so many schools?A.Because he couldnt paint well.B. Because he had no imagination.C. Because he often caused trouble.D. Because be couldnt afford the fee.What does tbe underlined word “ that ” in Para. 6 refer to?A.The time whe

31、n I stayed in New York B. The idea of giving up paintingC.The unsuccessful exhibition. D. The hard period of my life.n the last paragraph the author tries to the readers .A.to fight against challenges B.to dream of being famousC.to stick to beliefs D.to accept rejectionCA new study has found that so

32、cial media could be affecting the sleep of young adults. Thestudy is a project of researchers at the University of PiiLshurghs School of Medicine, They found that young people who often use social media are more likely to suffer from sleep thanthose who use social media less.The researchere say doct

33、ors should ask young adults about their use of social media whentreating sleep issues . “ This is one 0f the pieces of evidence that social media use reallycan affect your sleep, ” saidJessica C, Levenson. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the universitys Difpartment of Psychiatry. She was the lea

34、d author of a report on the study.The researchers set out to exmine the connection belween social media use and sleep among young adults.The researchers wanted to find out how often young people used social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and etc.， Far the study, they gave questionnaires to nearr

35、ly 1, 800 adults,aged 19 to 32, On average， members of the study group used social media sites one hour a day.They also visited various social media accounts 30 times per week. Thirty percent of ihe studys participants reported havingserious problems with sleepping. Those people who used social madi

36、a a lot were three times more likely Id have a sleep disorder. And those who spent the most time on serial media were two times as likely to suffer from sleep disturbances.Frequent checking is big part of the problem. Levenson said the number of a person visitsmedia is a better predictor of sleep pr

37、oblems than overall time spent on serial metdia. If this is true, she adda,then practices that stop such behaviors may be most effective.Researchers say social media can influence sleep patterns in a number of ways, People canlose sleep by staging up too late looking at social media. Sensitiveissues

38、 about onsocial media pan cause ” emotional ,cognitive or physiological” excitement . Using anelectrenic device can disturb abodys natural sleep rhythms because of the lightcoming from cell phones or computer screens. The researchere note that in some cases,young adults who have a hard time sleeping

39、 may use social media to help them fall asleep.“ It also may be that both of these hypotheses （假定） are true, ” says Brian A. Primack.He is director of the Center for Research on Media, Tehnology and Health. He is also the studys senior aurhor. Primack says，“ Diffi cult sleepingmay lead to increased

40、use of social media,which may in turn lead to more problems sleeping. This cycle may be particularly problematicwith social media. Many forms of social media involve interractive screen time thal isstimulating（ 刺激） and rewarding and, for thoae reasons, can keep you awake.”From the results of the que

41、stionnaire , who are more likely to have a sleep problem?The participants aged from 19 to 32.The participants visiting social media frequently.The participants using sucial media sites one hour a day.The participants spending the most time on social media.The main purpose of tbf passage is to .A.com

42、pare and evaluateB.examine and reasonC.inform and explainD.argue and concludeWhat is the best title for the passage?Social Media Is Keeping Young Adults AwakeDifficult Sleeping is Affecting Sleeping PattemsElectric Devices Art Influencing Steep RhythmsYoung Adults Are Suffering from Sleep Disorders

43、第二部分 . 听力理解第三节：（ 共 5 小题；每小题1.5 分 , 满分 7.5 分）听下面 - 段对话，根据题目要求在相应的横线上写下第1 题至第 5 题的关键信息。每小题仅填写一个词。这段对话你将听两遍。An Order FromCustomer DetailaName： Jerry CookAddres: 127 1 _ RoadTelephone No: 2 _Order DetailsGoods ： 40 mountain 3 for children Color: 4and purpkPrbe: $ 120 eachDelivery Time ： Next 5 _ . 语法填空(

44、 共 10 小题；毎小题1 分，满分10 分)在下列句子中的空白处填入适当内容或括号内单词的正确形式。The building you can set on the otherside of the river is the town hall.This is the manbooks have been so popular recently.The stadium the football match will be held is not far from our school. Hi,Mike, you look tired. I (clean) my apartment all da

45、y.We ( know) each other since we were at schoool.Joanna is upstairs in tbe bathroom, She (wash) her hair.Steven felt so sad ， because his bike(sisal) yesterday.If we didnt have computer , life (be) very different .regular exercise veryimportant, its never a good idea to exercise too close tobedtime.

46、People believe that doing sports can make them feelstressed and sleepbetter. . 完成句子(共5小题；第1、 2 小题每小题2 分，第3、 4、 5 小题每小题3 分 , 满分 13 分 )根据括号中所给提示完成下列句子。没有人可以说服她改变主意。(persuade).目前为止，他们用光了所有的钱。(run out of世纪金榜圆您梦想更多精品资源请登录第 页（共 17 页）世纪金榜圆您梦想更多精品资源请登录第 页(共 17 页)3. 现在北京的公共场所都禁止吸烟。ban)当你遇到麻烦时，你可以求助于朋友。(get i

47、nto trouble)我想知道您是否方便出席我们的晚会。（convenient）.B 卷 满分 50 分 . 选词填空（共7 小题；毎小题2 分，满分14 分）用方框中单词的适当形式完成下列句子，每个单词只能使用一次。confuse solve patient evenluallyhope benefit apolugizeBen failed the driving lest three time, but lie did not give up , he passedit.I noticed two foreigners holding a map, looking and worrie

48、d.I was wrong , so I should _ for what I said to you.We havea lot from biking part in volunteer activities.Beijing government is trying to find a practical to the problem of air pollution.The earthquake destroyed the houses of the villagers, which made them feel.As soon I got home , I began to leach

49、 my grandmother how to use the cell phone with . . 阅读表达（共4 小题，每小题2 分，满分8 分）阅读下面的短文和问题，根据短文内容，在相应题号后的横线上写下相关信息, 完成对该问题的回答。答语要意思清楚，结构正确，书写工整。MCDONALDS, one of the Worlds largest restaurant chairs, recently made a big decision.On March 9, the company announced that its chicken suppliers inthe US would

50、stop using humanantibiotics within two years.Antibiotics are medicines that attach harmful bacteria1 to help cure illnesses. Manycattle, pig and chicken producers give their livestock2 antibiotics to help them stay healthy.Feeding antibiotics to animals is legal in the US. But the producers feed the

51、ir livestock not only animal antibiotics, but also those used by humans, Experts say it can lead to public health problems, Overuse of these human antibiotics could cause germs3 to become resistant 4 to drugs.When the drugs are used to treat humans , they may no longer be effective.Many US fast food

52、 restaurants already say they serve chicken which are raised without antibiotics, but the decision by McDonalds is important because of its size. The company has over 30, 000 stores around the world . including 14,000 in the US.In recent years, customers have atarted to care more about food ingredie

53、nu5 . If they feelcertain foods are made with ingredients that are of low quality or dont meet certaia levels of quality, theyll choose other higher quality foods.After seeing customer visits lo US stores drop two years in a row, McDonalds more changes to their food could be on the way.However, McDo

54、nalds wont be applying the new antibiotics policy to its Chinese stores soon.The company said its not a double standard but they have to lake Chinese food safety standards into consideration.“ The measures will be carred outgradually ， based on the actual situation ofChinese agriculture ，” McDonalds

55、 China said a statement.bacteria: the smallest froms of life that are often a cause of disease.livestock ： the animals kept on a farmgerm : a form ofbacteria that spreads dissease among people or animalsresistant ： not affected by somethingingredient: one of the things from which somethingis madeAcc

56、ording toMcDonalds ,what will its chicken suppliers in America dowithin two years?( 不多于 4 个单词)不多于 5 个单词）不多于 9 个单词 ）不多于 6 个单词）Why do many chicken producers feed their livestock antibiotics?(What is the consequence of overuse of human antibiotics?(For what reason did McDonalds make changes to their fo

57、od?(. （ 共 4 小题；毎小题2 分，满分8 分）A、B 、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。“ There is no evidence that any amount of homework improves the academic performance of elementary students? ”This statement, by homework research expert harris Cooper,of Duke University, issurprising to hear, no matter which side of the homework deba

58、te youre on. Can it be true that the bours of lost playtime, power struggles and tears all for naught? That millions of families gothrough a nightly ritual that doesnt help? Homework is such an acceepted practics that its hard for most adults to even question its value.When you Look at the facts, ho

59、wever, heres what you find： Homework has benefits, butits are age dependent.For elementar -aged children, research suggests that studying in class gets superior learning results, while extra school work at home is just extra wo rk. Even in middle school,the relationship between homework, and academi

60、c succese is minimal at best. By the time hours kida reach high school , homework provides academic benefit , but only in moderation.More than two houra per night is the limit. After that amount,the benefits taper off. “ The research is very clear, ” agrees Etta Kra lovec, education professor at the